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any way to enable SLI w/o having to restart?

post #1 of 6
8/19/06 at 9:47pm
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Its getting kind of annoying, actually. I have two monitors, but can only use a single monitor when I am in SLI. And when I go to enable SLI, I must restart the computer. Its really an unnessicary schedual of tasks to have to complete when all I want to do is play some games.
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post #2 of 6
8/20/06 at 3:00am
that's odd... I don't have to restart to enable sli...should I have to?
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post #3 of 6
8/20/06 at 5:31am
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Is your computer on 24/7? I think you only have to restart once every time the computer is turned on.
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post #4 of 6
8/20/06 at 10:16am
I've never had to restart either; and I've run 84.15, 84.4x, 84.74 and 91.xx series drivers.

The only thing I have found is that during the switching process it basically resizes your screen to 640x480 - so it's best not to have anything running or the window will end up very small indeed.

In fact I just tried it again - my machine has been on for three days, I enabled SLi (no restart), disabled SLi (no restart) and enabled SLi again..

The only thing it's ever prompted me to do is close some applications when disabling SLi, if any apps cross over the 'card' boundary (i.e. the middle of the screen, I believe).
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post #5 of 6
8/20/06 at 11:52pm
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Originally Posted by MrG00DWrench1
Its getting kind of annoying, actually. I have two monitors, but can only use a single monitor when I am in SLI. And when I go to enable SLI, I must restart the computer. Its really an unnessicary schedual of tasks to have to complete when all I want to do is play some games.

sli is only compatible with a single moniter?
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post #6 of 6
8/21/06 at 9:06am
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Originally Posted by blizard8
sli is only compatible with a single moniter?

Yep, when SLi is enabled you can only use a single head, disable SLi and you can use multi-head as normal.

No idea if that's a hardware or driver limitation, but it's the same in all currently available versions of the Nvidia drivers AFAIK.
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